Kristol: Lieberman will be Secretary of
State in Romney AdministrationBy Maidhc Ó Cathail

May 19, 2012
"Information
Clearing House"
-- On Tuesday at
Manhattan’s B’nai Jeshurun Synagogue during a
debate with J Street founder and President Jeremy Ben-Ami,
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol predicted that the next U.S.
Secretary of State in a Romney administration would be Senator
Joe Lieberman.

Although
Kristol is typically wrong in his rosy predictions about the
outcome of the many wars of “Muslim
liberation” in which he has advocated American involvement,
he is far more reliable when it comes to forecasting GOP
political appointments. On June 30, 2008, Kristol confidently
predicted on Fox News that Senator John McCain would select
Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate. Kristol had
discovered the then Alaska governor a year earlier, when a
cruise hosted by The Weekly Standard set anchor in Juneau, and
from then on relentlessly promoted her in the media and to the
McCain campaign.

If
Kristol’s latest prediction comes true, a Romney presidency
would put U.S. foreign policy even more firmly under the control
of a foreign power. As Mark Vogel, chairman of the largest
pro-Israel Political Action Committee (PAC),
once said:

Joe
Lieberman, without exception, no conditions … is the No. 1
pro-Israel advocate and leader in Congress. There is nobody
who does more on behalf of Israel than Joe Lieberman.

It
would be hard to think of anyone who has done more to
undermine American freedoms than Joseph Lieberman. Since
9/11, the Independent senator from Connecticut has
introduced a raft of legislation in the name of the “global
war on terror” which has steadily eroded constitutional
rights. If the United States looks increasingly like a
police state, Senator Lieberman has to take much of the
credit for it.